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Dictionaries - essay by Isaac Asimov
Too Soon to Die - novelette by Tom Godwin
A Museum Piece - short story by Roger Zelazny
Why Johnny Can't Speed - short story by Alan Dean Foster
Man in a Quandary - short story by Joseph Wesley [as by L. J. Stecher, Jr.]
The Cabbage Patch - short story by Theodore R. Cogswell
A Touch of Grapefruit - short story by Richard Matheson
Answer - short story by Fredric Brown
A Gun for Dinosaur - novelette by L. Sprague de Camp
A Pail of Air - short story by Fritz Leiber
The Odor of Thought - short story by Robert Sheckley
The Last Monster - short story by Poul Anderson (variant of Terminal Quest)
History Lesson - short story by Arthur C. Clarke
The Troublemaker - short story by Christopher Anvil
The Game of Rat and Dragon - short story by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger [as by Cordwainer Smith]
Let's Be Frank - short story by Brian W. Aldiss
The Easy Way Out - short story by G. Harry Stine [as by Lee Correy]
All Cats Are Gray - short story by Andre Norton
The Man from Earth - short story by Gordon R. Dickson
Dream Damsel - short story by Evan Hunter
The Underdweller - short story by William F. Nolan (variant of Small World)
Top Secret - short story by Eric Frank Russell
One Love Have I - short story by Robert F. Young
The Snowball Effect - short story by Katherine MacLean
The Santa Claus Problem - short story by J. W. Schutz
The Ship Who Sang - novelette by Anne McCaffrey
No Harm Done - short story by Jack Sharkey
There Will Come Soft Rains - short story by Ray Bradbury
In the Jaws of Danger - short story by Piers Anthony
In the Abyss - (1896) - short story by H. G. Wells
Custer's Last Jump - novelette by Steven Utley and Howard Waldrop
Game Preserve - short story by Rog Phillips
Life Hutch - short story by Harlan Ellison
The Silk and the Song - novelette by Charles L. Fontenay
Down to the Worlds of Men - novelette by Alexei Panshin
Robbie - short story by Isaac Asimov (variant of Strange Playfellow 1940)
The Man with English - short story by H. L. Gold [as by Horace L. Gold]
Transstar - novelette by Raymond E. Banks
Open Warfare - novelette by James E. Gunn
The Long Way Home - short story by Fred Saberhagen
Skirmish on a Summer Morning - novella by Bob Shaw
Gantlet - short story by Richard E. Peck
Saucer of Loneliness - short story by Theodore Sturgeon (variant of A Saucer of Loneliness)
The Mother of Necessity - short story by Chad Oliver
The Great Secret - short story by George H. Smith
The Draw - short story by Jerome Bixby
For the Sake of Grace - novelette by Suzette Haden Elgin
A Death in the House - novelette by Clifford D. Simak
Creature of the Snows - short story by William Sambrot
A Criminal Act - short story by Harry Harrison
The Cage - short story by A. Bertram Chandler
About the Author
Isaac Asimov
Asimov was born sometime between October 4, 1919 and January 2, 1920 in Petrovichi in Smolensk Oblast, RSFSR (now Russia), the son of a Jewish family of millers. Although his exact date of birth is uncertain, Asimov himself celebrated it on January 2. His family emigrated to Brooklyn, New York and opened a candy store when he was three years old. He taught himself to read at the age of five. He began reading the science fiction pulp magazines that his family's store carried. Around the age of eleven, he began to write his own stories, and by age nineteen, he was selling them to the science fiction magazines. He graduated from Columbia University in 1939. He married Gertrude Blugerman in 1942. During World War II he worked as a civilian at the Philadelphia Navy Yard's Naval Air Experimental Station. After the war, he returned to Columbia University and earned a Ph.D. in biochemistry in 1948. He then joined the faculty of the Boston University School of Medicine until 1958, when he became a full-time writer. His first novel, [Pebble in the Sky](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL46402W), was published in 1950. He and his wife divorced in 1973, and he married Janet O. Jeppson the same year. He was a highly prolific writer, having written or edited more than 500 books and an estimated 9,000 letters and postcards.
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